Posted on 05/17/2009 9:28:03 PM PDT by Steelfish
After a Sensational Crime, a Trial Marked by Quiet
By MEG BORTIN May 17, 2009
PARIS — In the two and a half weeks since 27 people went on trial here for the brutal 2006 kidnapping, torture and killing of a young Jewish man, little has filtered out about the proceedings.
Despite the sensational nature of the case and the serious issues it has raised — from the rise of anti-Semitism in some sectors of French society to the way the police handled the investigation — the French are essentially unable to follow the courtroom drama because of a law that bans the public and the media from trials that involve minors.
The hallways outside the courtroom at the Palais de Justice in central Paris are largely empty save for the gendarmes who strictly monitor access. Absent are the reporters, photographers and television crews that would fill the 24-hour news cycle for a similar trial in Britain or the United States.
Missing, also, for better or worse, is a public engagement with the troubling issues that were raised by the horrifying nature of the crime, in which Ilan Halimi, 23, was kidnapped, bound in tape, hidden in sordid conditions, beaten, slashed, burned and finally thrown into the street after 24 days, only to die of his wounds before reaching a hospital.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
"The accused ringleader in the case, Youssouf Fofana, now 28, is charged with kidnapping, acts of torture and barbarism, and premeditated murder aggravated by the fact that Mr. Halimi was Jewish. According to news accounts published in 2006, Mr. Fofana told the police that he had sought to capture a Jew because “they’re loaded with dough.”
The other defendants are charged with crimes ranging from entrapment and sequestration that resulted in death to failing to assist a person in peril.
The defendants come from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds. Like Mr. Fofana, many of them lived in the southern Paris suburb of Bagneux, where Mr. Halimi was held."
78% of American (liberal) Jews voted for Hussein. I know Jews who have left France and other parts of Europe because of things like this. Some went to America or Israel.
American Jews voted for more Muslims and more IslamoTerrorism - fools.
Mr. Fofana wasn’t a juvenile in 2006; why wasn’t his trial public? Or don’t they have severed trials in France?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1582572/posts
“Explaining Jews, Part III: A Very Insecure People (Dennis Prager Alert)”
Townhall.com ^ | 06/21/06 | Dennis Prager
Posted on February 20, 2006 10:53:50 PM PST by goldstategop
SNIPPET: “On Jan. 21 in Paris, a gang of Muslims intent on kidnapping Jews kidnapped 23-year-old Ilan Halimi. Reciting verses from the Koran in phone conversations demanding money from the family, they ultimately rejected the money and tortured Halimi to death. They kept him naked for weeks while they cut him up and finally poured flammable liquid over his skin and burned him alive. When Jews read this story, they see themselves as Halimi and think that such a thing could happen to them somewhere in the world today and somewhere in the world at any time in the past.”
TIMES ONLINE.co.uk: "MUSLIM YOUSSOUF FOFANA DEFIES COURT OVER TORTURE AND MURDER OF JEW" by Charles Bremner in Paris (SNIPPET: "Youssouf Fofana, 28, who led a loose-knit gang of youths from an immigrant housing estate, swaggered into court and shouted "Allah will conquer" as the court began hearing a case into a killing that horrified France and the world Jewish community in 2006. Mr Fofana and most of his 26 alleged accomplices have admitted their roles in the kidnapping of Ilan Halimi, 23, an assistant in a Paris telephone shop, who was held for ransom for 24 days in the suburb of Bagneux.") (April 30, 2009)
Sure as hell sounds like 1937 Germany. They will never learn.
“Sure as hell sounds like 1937 Germany.”
OPINION:
Yes, it does.
If the Jews of Paris had any honor, they would have slit the throats of these murderers and their entire familes, and burned their homes and mosques to the ground.
My sympathy to the victim's family; who now will carry his suffering for the rest of their lives. It is more than disheartening that there are - and will be - many more victims of this virulent, rising/resurgent hate.
http://www.newmajority.com/ShowScroll.aspx?ID=e60abc06-c912-449d-b1b3-cb934c1f6629
“ILAN HALIMI’S MURDERER: ‘I AM PROUD’”
Sunday, May 31, 2009 7:05 PM
SNIPPET: “Last Thursday, Youssouf Fofana admitted that he was responsible for killing Ilan Halimi and that he personally doused Halimi in lighter fluid and set him on fire. According to Vigoreux’s account, Fofana referred to the hearsay testimony of his lieutenant Samir Ait Abdelmalek for the other details. Abdelmalek has previously reported that Fofana told him that he stabbed Halimi in the throat and tried to “cut his neck.” On Vigoreux’s account, Fofana said he had no regrets about killing Halimi and even added: “I am proud.” The remark is highly significant. As noted in my earlier NM report, French authorities and the French media have persistently tried to minimize the role played by anti-Semitism in the crime. But if Fofana’s motives were strictly economic, why should he be “proud” of having killed Halimi?”
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Hat Tip: Jawa Report
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